Kim Phillips-Fein is the author of Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal. She teaches history at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, and has written for the Nation, Dissent, the Baffler, the Atlantic, and the New York Times, among other publications.
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Starting in the mid-1930s, a handful of prominent American businessmen forged alliances with the aim of rescuing America—and their profit margins—from socialism and the 'nanny state.' Long before the 'culture wars' usually associated with the ... SEE MORE